• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Are you kidding me? Like legit is this a troll? In what reality are dems and repubs even remotely close on most of those issues?

    Actually you know what, I’m bored, I have time to spend. I’ll do this off the top of my head:

    Climate: Trump tries to back out of climate agreements and rolls back several environmental and corporate regulations. I’m not very well-versed here but this was a regular thing when he was president. Biden’s admin I believe passed some climate policy as well.

    Income Inequality: Democrats propose higher taxes on the rich and more social program spending. Repubs do not. In fact iirc they tried to lower taxes on the rich again. Dems have tried out UBI and other experiments in some cities. Dems are more pro-union than repubs. Dems funded the IRS to catch millionaires dodging taxes.

    Homelessness Rates: Pretty even. Democrat cities tend to be nicer to them but don’t solve the systemic issues.

    Hunger Rates: Dems have regularly tried to improve the school lunch programs and make them cost less or be free. Repubs do not. Adult hunger rates idk.

    Corporate Greed: When the government is under democratic control we spend more on the IRS, anti-monopoly measures, government regulation in general, etc. The antidote to corporate greed is regulation.

    Military: About the same

    Immigration Reform: Trump is literally threatening to deport american citizens and plans to round up all the illegal immigrants the moment he gets into office. He allowed ICE to enter any home within 100 miles of the border. His literal main selling point is that he hates immigrants and things the dems are letting too many in.

    Prisons: About the same. Prison system sucks

    Genocide: Way more equal than it should be, but slight dem edge as I’ve talked about earlier. That edge doesn’t matter a lot.

    The dems have done more than promise. They’ve significantly helped out poorer americans with debt relief, regulations, and enforcement on corporations.